What if Saddam's Jury Resembled Bush's Coalition?

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Ever notice how the President is always pointing out how many nations are involved in the coalition efforts in Iraq. The number of Nations is not a true picture of the make up of the US led forces in Iraq.

With Saddam’s trial coming up, I thought we could conjecture what his jury would look like if had the same make up as the coalition forces that the president keeps mentioning.

Out of the twelve jurors:

The first TEN out of the box are Americans.

The next one is part British and part Italian that gets us to 11 total jurors.

The final juror on this panel is a mix of 31 different nationalities and 13 of those each constitute less that 1% of one juror.

So this hypothetical jury and this coalition, while truly international, is overwhelmingly American and 90% American-British-Italian. By the way, how long has Moldavia been a country?

Details for the wonks among us.


TROOPS FORCE % # in JURY
1 130000 US 83.79744% 10.05569
2 9900 BRITIAN 6.38150% 0.76578
3 3000 ITALY 1.93379% 0.23205
4 2350 POLAND 1.51480% 0.18178
5 1650 UKRAINE 1.06358% 0.12763
6 1254 SPAIN 0.80832% 0.09700
7 1100 NETH 0.70906% 0.08509
8 800 AUSTRALIA 0.51568% 0.06188
9 700 ROMANIA 0.45122% 0.05415
10 500 BULGARIA 0.32230% 0.03868
11 443 THAILAND 0.28556% 0.03427
12 420 DENMARK 0.27073% 0.03249
13 400 CHEK REP 0.25784% 0.03094
14 368 HONDURAS 0.23721% 0.02847
15 361 EL SALVADOR 0.23270% 0.02792
16 302 DOM REP 0.19467% 0.02336
17 179 NORWAY 0.11538% 0.01385
18 160 MONGOLIA 0.10314% 0.01238
19 150 AZERBAIJAN 0.09669% 0.01160
20 140 HUNGARY 0.09024% 0.01083
21 120 PORTUGAL 0.07735% 0.00928
22 113 NICERAGUA 0.07284% 0.00874
23 100 LATVIA 0.06446% 0.00774
24 80 PHILIP 0.05157% 0.00619
25 80 SLOVAKIA 0.05157% 0.00619
26 70 ALBANIA 0.04512% 0.00541
27 70 GEORGIA 0.04512% 0.00541
28 61 N ZEALAND 0.03932% 0.00472
29 60 CROATIA 0.03868% 0.00464
30 50 LITHUANIA 0.03223% 0.00387
31 50 MOLDAVIA 0.03223% 0.00387
32 43 ESTONIA 0.02772% 0.00333
33 37 MACEDONIA 0.02385% 0.00286
34 25 KAZAKHTAN 0.01611% 0.00193
155136 = total troops

Way to go Dominican Republic you have to be the leader in % of your nation's population in Iraq.

Still another view.

At the website http://www.countryreports.org/ they claim to cover most of the worlds nations and currently list 260 nations of the world.

So, Bush's coalition of 34 nations amounts to 13% of the world’s nations.

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[BlueEyedSon]

2. Well, by the webster definition yes.

Seeing how almost all of the countries comprise a fractional percent of the force, and USA & UK are about 90%, I would say it's an Anglo-American alliance with a pinch of international seasoning.

The US is 4% of the world population. I think that would be a fair share of lives and treasure for us to kick in.

BTW, who is "us"? Got a mouse in your pocket?

[HawkerHurricane]

3. Of those 34 countries...

How many did we blackmail into supporting us?

How many did we bribe?

How many did we coerce?

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4. Juicy! But this information is not so readily available

It would make for a great push-poll in the tradition of Karl Rove: "If you were told that we gave half a billion to Moldavia to send a Yugo full of troops, would you still view this as a multi-national force.

Do mercenaries count?